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The Italian campaign. Lasted upto may 1945, Italy, with its mountains running left to right making repeated defensive lines causing heavy casualties among allies and you want to start an invasion at the tip. Good luck with that..

My understanding is that the M3's used in NA came mainly from the US 1st armoured division ottl. this delayed its deployment while it rearmed with M4's. so in ttl will it deploy with the M3's and where does it deploy

O why? The japs were the enemy now. They didn’t need a 17lber for the japanese. The mark 3 was pure vanity.

You might start with a 2nd delegation of japanese naval officers visiting UK [first in the late 20's] Where it is mentioned by a RN submarine officer that the german navy came within 4 - 6 weeks of forcing the government to surrender by submarine and that island nations are very vulnerable...

My understanding is that the Vickers on the first tank cruiser were inaccurate caused by vehicle vibrations and the gun itself. The BESA had with it an ability to nullify vibrations and was more accurate. War had started and it would take to long to change calibre also it was smaller diameter...

Great story, keep it up

when did the investigation into Mr L Murphy start

The Royal Artillery One big problem will be convincing the RA gunners that a SPG is worth it. As they will see that one SPG equals the cost of 6 25lber's. It only changed because of manpower shortages. To many going to air defence units.. regards

5th tank reg. There is a book about the 5th tank which tells of its war experience. With the 2nd armoured div, when deploying half their tanks broke down. Took up fixed positions then while receiving radio instructions from General commanding being interrupted by sightings of the advancing...

winning the war The boer war was two conflicts separated by about 20 years. The boer's won the first which was when the british tried to annex Transvaal impose some there own laws and were defeated. The british seeing they were losing didn't want to re-enforce what they saw was a losing war...

BEF2 He arrived on 13th June. he assessed and ordered a total withdrawal and by 25th about 2oo thousand troops were out. That's TWO WEEKS.

Confidence In a book which I now can't recall the title of, the author tells the story of Gen. Brooke sitting on the beach at Dunkirk bawling his eyes out, a totally broken man. He also refused to ever again to command. Its just my opinion but I don't think Gen. Brooke had any confidence in the...

best tool Out of ww2 the best weapon would be radio's and constant tracking also isolating the insurgency from the general public. regards

h.e. vs ap Couldn't there be two factions one pushing a pure tank force with an AP shell vs a HE shell for troop support. Getting a compromise of 1 in 4 which has a 3lber while the rest have 2lber. Artillery could be helped with a self propelled guns and control of all AA guns which it has very...